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Expert hits out at lack of cash spent on mental health patients in North East Lincs  - A ROW has broken out over the amount of cash spent on local mental health patients, with one expert blasting funders for their "unequal treatment" ...

These six simple steps could help reduce your risk of dementia  - You are never too young to take some simple steps to improve both your physical and mental health as you age and hopefully reduce your risk of ...

Can suicide rates be reduced to zero?  - So how are different countries and communities responding to this issue, and is it possible to develop a public strategy to prevent suicide?

Homeless action call as fourth man dies in Belfast  - An emergency meeting was called by the Lord Mayor of Belfast City Council to address homelessness after a fourth man was found dead in the city.

Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise it  - For one thing, many psychiatric patients in Britain feel that services too often ignore their life stories. In the words of Eleanor Longden, a mental health  ...

More and more people with mental health problems are being forced to sleep on the street  - The number of people with mental health problems sleeping on the street is rising, extensive new research by a homelessness charity suggests.

Mental health patients share their experiences to call for an end to stigma  - Louis Collenette, 24, was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) eight years ago. From a young age he felt he had to repeat certain ...

Why a gay Indian professor's death inspired a film  - A professor from India's prestigious Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) died in 2010 after a video of him having sex with another man became public.

Malcolm Turnbull urges calm heads over Safe Schools LGBTI program  - Malcolm Turnbull has urged everyone involved in the debate over the Safe Schools program to 'consider very carefully the impact of the words they ...

US criminal justice system disproportionately targets LGBTI people  -  LGBTI people 'pay an extraordinarily high price for the failures of the US criminal justice system,' according to a report released  

Why The Safe Schools Coalition Is So Important  - The school LGBTI program, the Safe Schools Coalition, has become such a political football in recent weeks, as politicians and lobby groups on both ...

Day after marking first LGBTI rights day, Israel's parliament shoots down six pro-gay bills  - A day after marking its first ever LGBTI rights day, the Israeli parliament shot down six pro-gay bills. President Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset ...

MPs 'bravely' demonstrating why the LGBTI anti-bullying program is so important  - He bravely stood up for the LGBTI people he loves so much and promptly kowtowed to the agitation amongst his more conservative backbenchers, ...

Limited breakthrough for Italian gay rights  - Voting in favour of legal recognition for same-sex couples is a hugely important and symbolic moment for LGBTI people in Italy," said Brian Sheenan, ...

Caledonian Thebans LGBTI -friendly rugby club to make history  - Up until October last year, Caledonian Thebans RFC – based in the Capital – were the country's only rugby club to welcome players from the LGBTI  ...

Italy's gay couples win a bitter-sweat victory  - But this is not the law that they supported – the LGBTI community had been calling for protection for couples and their children. The two amendments ...

UK's oldest gay rugby clubs to face-off in commemorative match  - Two of the world's oldest gay rugby union teams will be going head to head to celebrate the history and achievements of the LGBT rugby movement.

What if you went back to the country you were forced to flee for being gay ?  - Despite living in the UK for years after claiming asylum and being forced to ... “There are other people in the country that people will know are gay of ...

Homophobia : Live on Broadway  - Last Wednesday night, my mom and I went to see The Color Purple on Broadway. I was stoked. I'd heard only glowing reviews of this minimalist ...

Aligarh', a Fresh Take on Battle Against Homophobia  - We are so used to watching an unrelenting Kya Kool Hain Hum 3 one week, followed by a Mastizaade in the next, that too without anaesthetics.

Beating Bernardi: Responding To The Reactionary Right's Homophobia  - In 2010, due to a spate of homophobia , self-harm, and LGBTIQ youth suicides in Australia and abroad, some friends and I banded together to start ...

Gay rights pioneers get the apology they deserve  - On a Saturday evening in 1978, hundreds of supporters of gay rights took to the streets of Sydney. But what began as a celebration at Taylor Square ...